Loose Cannon Is Making A Mess Of The Mar-a-Lago Case

[moonlight_will_graham]

If Trump wins in 2024, do you think he would voluntarily give up the presidency in January of 2029, as required by the 22nd amendment?

I sure we could get Josh and TPM to start asking this question.

[coimmigrant]

@llwillis

VOTE in every 2023 election.

Got this email Tuesday: “Thank you for voting! Your 2023 Coordinated Election mail ballot has been counted by Larimer County Elections.”

But I’ll take a pass on voting in every 2023 election.

[esva]

FSM Liturgy 101:

Introit: Benvenuti a tutti. Buon Appetito.
Prayers: Done in silence since it is impossible to chant with a mouthful of pasta.
Comunione: Prima parte - breaking bread together. Seconda parte - washing it all down with wine.
Extroit: Delizioso. Alla prossima.

[dont]

OK bible thumpers. King David or King Solomon? Which one was known for being horny, which one was known for wisdom?

[carolson]

I think they genuinely want him to stop but of course that would be cooperating with Democrats. So there we have it.

[stradivarius50t3]

@ralph_vonholst

Perhaps his wife has an account with sums of money in it that are not congruent with her earnings from her “convert the gays and the sheepshaggers” website or whatever she took down recently.

@lastroth

But it would be nice if someone thought of that, and then went and tried to prove, or disprove the hypothesis.

I’m pretty sure someone is looking into this. A back-bencher with weird financial disclosures is usually just a back-bencher (unless he’s someone pathological like George Santos or whatever his name is today), but a Squeaker of the House with weird financial disclosures is going to attract some attention.

And his wifey’s business is getting some serious investigation, too.

[pshah]

An Alaska man threatened to kill a U.S. senator, strip their skin off their body and wear it as clothes, according to prosecutors who charged him this weekFox News reported that Arther Graham, 46, is accused of sending the threatening message to the…

Taking that expression about not judging a person until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes way too far.

[castor_troy]

Pfffft. If Trump gets back in, there won’t be another election. He’ll just pass the torch to Queen Ivanka 1 when he’s ready.

[txlawyer]

@jnbenson

I wonder if he listens to warnings anymore.

If it doesn’t cost him anything and spares him psychic embarrassment, sure. Certainly not if it gets in the way of his attention-whoring or getting back into the White House.

[terryelc]

I don’t watch Fox. But as for Gaza, Hamas puts their military people and assets in places that Israel cannot get at without causing a lot of damage…such as the 300 or so miles of tunnels under Gaza. That is what the bunker buster bombs are for. And Hamas not only hides under those camps, they fire rockets from them. There are no military camps in Gaza. The whole place belongs to Hamas. The only way to stop killing civilians would be to get them out of there. But Hamas does not want that either. So, they are trapped. And as for the numbers of casualties, we can’t even be sure of that. Hamas controls the Health Ministry. It is like some dystopian hell scape.

[nydan516]

Senate rules now for Supreme court is 50 votes plus VP tiebreaker. No super majority is needed.

[tacoma]

keep in mind, Tommy the Tuber was ‘let go’ from his job as coach of football…in Alabama…can you imagine how dumb he has to be to get fired from football in ALABAMA?

[jnbenson]

@terryelc

I don’t think that criticizing these idiots will get you called anti semitic, but accusing all Jews of being responsible for what is happening in Gaza probably would.

Well, that would be doing exactly what I’m criticizing. I think we’ll have to disagree on that, I suspect that the vast majority people would agree with you, but that slice of Christian Nationalists will accuse you of that. A school board member in my area criticized the bombing of civilians in Gaza and I got a robotext from her opponent accusing her of anti-semiticism and wanting to destroy Israel.

The Rep Mast speech kind of highlights the problem, he compared every person man woman and child in Gaza to Nazis. For that mindset it is about the power to dominate and destroy, if you object you are automatically persecuting Christians, and in this case Israel because they want to use Israel as a proxy for their theatre of carnage.

[Scoutmom]

@txlawyer

@eldonlazar

I also would have been fine if Merrick Garland hadn’t sat with his thumb up his ass for a year worrying if it would look political to prosecute the bastard.

You never cease to be either wrong or tedious about being wrong. Grow up.

I seem to recall that the talk at the time was that TFG was rushing announcing his candidacy because he knew the indictments were about to drop.

[jnbenson]

@txlawyer

If it doesn’t cost him anything and spares him psychic embarrassment, sure. Certainly not if it gets in the way of his attention-whoring or getting back into the White House.

We share such a high opinion of the man.

[taylor]

@moonlight_will_graham

If Trump wins in 2024, do you think he would voluntarily give up the presidency in January of 2029, as required by the 22nd amendment?

No.

The interesting question would be, where will the military be? I could see the rest of the country happily accepting the “security” of a military junta after the chaos a second Trump term would unleash.

[pshah]

@leftcoaster

Meanwhile in NY Jr. continues to testify and signed stuff but said he relied on the lawyers and accountants wrt accuracy but doesn’t recall any of those specific conversations.

From Lisa Rubin

Faherty is now moving on to the worksheets: Trump Jr. had no specific knowledge of or of the work performed for, he testifies, the supporting data worksheets for the statements of financial condition in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2021. (We are saving time, but these admissions are no less problematic for the defense.)

I’m still miffed at Mueller for not prosecuting Junior on the basis of him being too stupid…but he probably had a point.

[jwbuho]

@lastroth

I heard a story yesterday on NPR (that’s what I listen to, so sue me) and they discussed with a florist in Mexico about the influence of the Disney movie “Coco” and people’s desire to have marigolds for Nov 1st. The florist explained that even though marigolds are cheaper he’s got more customers, new customers wanting marigolds, and their buying more flowers.

First off: No suing from me.

Second off: It took a while, but Disney (after Mexicans and Latinos had persuaded it not to call it “Day of the Dead” and then trademark the title) worked very hard to get Coco right. One of the things they got right was the flowers: marigolds were already traditional in some parts of the country for Dia de los Muertos, but in other places people would use other flowers; in Durango, where I lived for a couple of years in the '80s, callas and roses appeared to be the flowers of choice.

Related: It’s thanks to that one James Bond film that opens in Mexico City with a parade celebrating Dia de los Muertos (something that had not been a thing prior) that the DF now has an annual parade celebrating Dia de los Muertos.

[josephebacon]

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[AIWL]

Hadn’t thought of that. Declare yourself a ministry and live tax free. Since most paychecks are now direct deposit to a bank account how does he get his for all the hard work he does as a Representative? Is it even legal, if that is the case? His “job” is representing people in a district and he is a part of the dreaded Government. Just asking.